08-08-2011, 11:23 AM
crazy person in Ohio. waiting for his ID.
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(CNN) -- Authorities are expected to offer more details during a noon news conference Monday about a shooting spree in northeastern Ohio in which a man gunned down seven people before police killed him.
The shootings occurred shortly before 11 a.m. Sunday in Copley Township, about seven miles west of Akron, according to the Copley Police Department.
According to police, the shootings began at one house where the gunman shot his girlfriend, continued when the shooter ran to an adjacent house where he shot five people, then went on as he chased two others "through some backyards" before hitting one.
"The shooter then went to another home ... where two other persons he had chased sought refuge. He entered the home, shot one victim and exited the home," a police statement said.
At that point, a Copley police officer and a former officer who was in the area encountered the shooter who "engaged the officer and the citizen in gunfire and (the shooter) was shot and killed."
The suspect shot eight people, killing seven and wounding one, police said. That victim was hospitalized, but the person's condition was not known early Monday morning.
A woman who lives near the scene of the shootings described how one of the gunman's would-be victims fled.
"Somebody knocked on my door and a woman was at my porch, hiding on my porch," Brenda McCrady told CNN affiliate WJW-TV.
When McCrady opened the door, the woman ran inside and told her, "somebody had shot her husband point blank in the head. ... And then she started screaming, 'My son, my son, my 11-year-old son.'"
Authorities said one victim was 11.
The identities of the victims are being withheld pending notification of kin, the Summit County medical examiner's office said.
Residents held a candlelight vigil Sunday evening, according to WJW. One neighbor said several victims were from two families who had lived side by side for years.
Another neighbor said residents were shocked and baffled by the shooting and would likely never get a full explanation.
"The killer's gone. We'll never know," the neighbor said.
(CNN) -- Authorities are expected to offer more details during a noon news conference Monday about a shooting spree in northeastern Ohio in which a man gunned down seven people before police killed him.
The shootings occurred shortly before 11 a.m. Sunday in Copley Township, about seven miles west of Akron, according to the Copley Police Department.
According to police, the shootings began at one house where the gunman shot his girlfriend, continued when the shooter ran to an adjacent house where he shot five people, then went on as he chased two others "through some backyards" before hitting one.
"The shooter then went to another home ... where two other persons he had chased sought refuge. He entered the home, shot one victim and exited the home," a police statement said.
At that point, a Copley police officer and a former officer who was in the area encountered the shooter who "engaged the officer and the citizen in gunfire and (the shooter) was shot and killed."
The suspect shot eight people, killing seven and wounding one, police said. That victim was hospitalized, but the person's condition was not known early Monday morning.
A woman who lives near the scene of the shootings described how one of the gunman's would-be victims fled.
"Somebody knocked on my door and a woman was at my porch, hiding on my porch," Brenda McCrady told CNN affiliate WJW-TV.
When McCrady opened the door, the woman ran inside and told her, "somebody had shot her husband point blank in the head. ... And then she started screaming, 'My son, my son, my 11-year-old son.'"
Authorities said one victim was 11.
The identities of the victims are being withheld pending notification of kin, the Summit County medical examiner's office said.
Residents held a candlelight vigil Sunday evening, according to WJW. One neighbor said several victims were from two families who had lived side by side for years.
Another neighbor said residents were shocked and baffled by the shooting and would likely never get a full explanation.
"The killer's gone. We'll never know," the neighbor said.